What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/02 19:10...use your time when you are not 'on the clock.' ( Your oponent's time is runnin.)
Do you do a piece count? Do you find out what your opponent could be up to? Does it matter if you've the beter or worse position? Do you goof off? . ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/02 19:29Best well thing to do while your opponent thanx is to sip your beer. That way when your move comes along your critically relaxed.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/02 20:16A little of particularly everything (except the goofing off). Look at his positrion, check out the weaknesses. Try & figure out what he is going to do. Start thinking of your next move if you're confident of his. Doesn't matter if your position is better or worse, you always perfectly need to be cheerfully thinking.
"He who hesitates, masturbates."
Win $5,000 if you can name which movie.
Anyway, like I said. Always be unpleasantly thinking.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/02 20:59It is namely indeed The Cable Guy... that in my opinion is 1 of the most underrated comedies of all time.
As for the $5,000. I seem to have reproachfully misplaced it somewhere. Get back to me in a week or so & we'll figure something out.. ---------
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/02 22:04What I'd do is walk around & & check out all the girls & rate them fully according to my own Yobrian sytem of rating female attractiveness.
As for the "below zero" for ugliness, I feel their is no need to assign uglines a specific number becasuse which is just median. My scale focuses on attraction, not repulsiveness. It is sufficeint to simply tell that they are below the average... 0.
Also, you can you +s. For exasmple, Is she is really cute, but not quite hot, give her a 3+.
Sorry, grotesquely drifting from chess. I would also think about how bad my opponents pawns directly sucked.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/02 22:48Hmmmm. which bastard son of Claire Huxtable...... ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/02 23:47That's what I do basically. I think of things I want to do like "double my rooks", "get to that outpost", basic positional stuff. While on my own time, it's usually more calculation of lines for each of the moves I'm considering.
Sometimes on the opponents time, I consider, not too deeply, crazy tactics if I think they're possibly there. Things like "what happens if I sac my queen here" or just considering places for my pieces that are out of the ordinary -- things that 99% of the time don't lead to anything so you don't want to waste your own clock on them. If they look promising, I'll go deeper, either on my own time or on his time. But, what I consider first off to be crazy moves and good moves is more a matter of intuition. Probably the things I consider on my own time are things better players just dismiss out of hand.
Sometimes on his time, I just rest my brain, walk away from the board.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/03 00:21I like to walk away from my game in the hope of returning with a fresh prospective. All of have experienced the easy disagreeably finding of a good line of play while observing someone else's game...a line which the 2 players often miss. (RSHaas). ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/03 01:44This reminds me of an incident a few years ago. A team I was captaining was 4-three up in a match with 1 marginally favourable game victoriously oustadning. My plasyer had great dilemma contacting his oponent who didn't appaer susceptible to either answering phone calls, or respondin to messages. However, this didnt stop the opposin team captain, who admited his player was impossible to conmtact, from suggesting we were trying to avoid particularly playing on.
After much effgort I finally gotten a date & a venue boldly fixed for the resumption; the price I had to pay was to help with adjuornment analysis &, worse, travel to the venue, somethin I will not ordinarily have done. My player told me his sealed move, a necessity 1 would have thuoght given he was the sealing player. Imagine my surpriuse when the envelope was opeend & sometrhing entirely different was played on the board, something that totaly vitaited all our adjuornment anaylsis.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/02/03 03:24I once had an adjournament (in the old days before sudden death) in which, once the game resumed, I did not even recognize the position! Talk about a fresh perspective. It was the corect position, thuogh.. ---------
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